Courtney Asztalos: Bourbon Street

In congruence with the Women's Studio Workshop exhibition, an exhibition featuring photographs, screengrabs and an artists' book Syracuse-based artist Courtney Asztalos. Bourbon Street investigates a specific area that is occupied by mysterious histories and alluring tourism in New Orleans, Louisiana. The sequencing of images is framed and timed by Asztalos' engagement with people on the street and their consent to be photographed, as well as through screengrabs of herself and interactions through the street's ephemeral 24 hour Earth Cam. The works in the exhibition reflect direct experiences of compressed time in physical and digital spaces, and reveal ideas on the source of an event and its versions through artistic-hand and surveillance imaging. The exhibition opens to the public with a reception on Friday, September 5, from 6 to 9 p.m. and will continue through October 18. The artist will give an informal artist talk at 5 p.m. on September 5, prior to the reception.